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| Thread ID: 51549 | 2004-11-24 00:08:00 | USB external case won't see NTFS | Supertrooper (2510) | Press F1 |
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| 295581 | 2004-11-24 00:08:00 | I'm setting up a new USB 2.0 external case for someone, who up till now has been using a similar setup, only it was USB 1.0 (1.1?). Anyway, using the old USB 1.0 case, he was able to use a hard drive that was formatted with NTFS. When I put that hard drive into the new USB 2.0 case, it won't read it - and the instructions say that USB 2.0 can not see an NTFS partition. Anyone know how to get around this? The reason for upgrading to a USB 2.0 case is to be able to boot off this drive. |
Supertrooper (2510) | ||
| 295582 | 2004-11-24 00:10:00 | Whats the caddy disk formatted as Fat32? | Murray P (44) | ||
| 295583 | 2004-11-24 00:13:00 | No, the caddy disk is NTFS. Using the old caddy which was USB 1.0 it was able to see the drive. When I put the drive into the new caddy which is USB 2.0 it can't see it. Therein lies the catch. I could just format the drive as FAT32 but Windows 2000 (his OS) won't format a 120 Gb drive as FAT32, only NTFS! |
Supertrooper (2510) | ||
| 295584 | 2004-11-24 00:22:00 | Does 2000 see it in Control Panel / Admin tools / Computer Management / Disk Management?? If it does, see if you can format it there, or partition it thru there. Thats if 2k has this option. I dont know. |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 295585 | 2004-11-24 00:24:00 | So, it's USB trouble shooting you want, not the drive. Look for drivers and win2k USB 2 patches/workarounds. That artificial 120GB limit MS put in is a pain. I think I read about a hack for that somewhere. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 295586 | 2004-11-24 00:30:00 | 2000 can see it in Disk Management, but won't let me format it as FAT32 (max partition size for Win2000 under FAT32 is 32Gb). If I try to format it as FAT32 it will start, get all the way through, then bring up an error saying "Volume size too big". |
Supertrooper (2510) | ||
| 295587 | 2004-11-24 00:30:00 | Thanks Murray - I thought that might be the case - on the hunt as we speak... | Supertrooper (2510) | ||
| 295588 | 2004-11-24 00:42:00 | What brand is the 120gb hdd?? Seagate? Western Digital? Samsung? | Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 295589 | 2004-11-24 01:06:00 | My guess is that it's not USB 2.0 which can't "see" NTFS. It will be the embedded software ("OS") in the box. ;-) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 295590 | 2004-11-24 02:05:00 | > My guess is that it's not USB 2.0 which can't "see" > NTFS. It will be the embedded software ("OS") in the > box. ;-) I suspect your right Graham. Supertrooper, have a shuftee around....,,, ta da ta daaa............ it'ssssss.... USB MAN (http://www.usbman.com/), who's got OS specific resourses and if he hasen't got an answer there will be a link with one. |
Murray P (44) | ||
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